Wringer



J. n. SPNCER.

WRINGER.

APPLICATION FILED lUNE 5| 1920.

Patented Apr. 18, 1922.

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WBENG Specification of Letters Patent,

Patented Apr, 18, 1922 To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that l, JOHN R, SrnNoriB, a citizen of the United States, residing at Erie, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wringers, of which the following is a specification.

ln the use of wringers, particularly power wringers, a drip board is usually provided which carries the drip from one side to the other of the wringer depending on the direction from which the clothes are fed to the wringer. Such drip boards are ordinarily manually actuated and controlled and if the operator ne lects to shift the board or to lock it in position after shifting there is a deection of the water which is discharged from the clothing at the discharge side of the wringer with a consequent inconvenience.

With this invention the drip board is aptomatically swung to carry the water in the right direction.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanyi-ng drawings as follows Fig. 1 shows an end view, partly in section, of the wringer embodying the invention.

Fig. 2 a front elevation of the wringer, partly in section. l

1 and 2 mark the side stiles, 3 the top bar and L1 the cross bar. These are of the ordinary construction. rlhe `wringer is provided with the usual upper roll 5 and lower roll 6.-

l'llhese rolls are'mounted on the shafts 7 and 8 respectively and are journaled in the beari ings 9 and 10 carried by the stiles 1 and 2.

rllhe bearings 9 are slidingly mounted as is Y connection between the common inthe slots, 11 and are lsubjected to the pressure of springs 12 arranged in the slots. tonzhich the power is applied and the oppo site end of the shaft is provided with the usual gear 14: which meshes with the gear 15 on the shaft 7. A stationary drip board 16 is provided and forms as is common the stiles. A tilting board 17 is mounted on a shaft 18. One end of the shaft 18 extends into a perforation 19 in the stile 2. rllhe.

opposite end of the shaft extends'through a slot 20 in the stile 1 and is supported in a bearing 21. The bearin 21 has an exten.- sion 22 which is Vsliding y mounted in a guide opening 23 in a bracket 24 secured to rlihe shaft8 has an extension 13" lower ends of the the side of the frame, the bracket forming the usual housing for the gears and mechanism. A shoulder 25 is formed between the bearing 21 and theextension 22 anda spring 26 is arranged around the extension 22 and rests on a part of the bracket 24 immediately above the guide opening and against the shoulder 25 and thus yieldingly presses the shaft 18 upwardly.

A friction roll 27 is fixed on the shaft 18 `and operates against a friction roll 28 fixed on the shaft 8. The roll 27 has the stops 29 and the stops 30 are arranged in the .bracket in the path of the stops 29. The relative distance between the stops 30 and the stops 29 permits of a movement of the roll 27 through a sufficient number of degrees to give the` roper movement to the drip board 17 carrled by the shaft 18.

T he operation of the device is as follows With the wringer moving in one di rection the frictional engagement of the roll 28 with the roll 27 drives the roll 27 and with it the shaft 18 in a direction to tilt the drip board 17 toward the feeding side ofthe rolls. When the rolls are reversed the frictional drive rotates the roll 27 and with it the shaft 18 so as to reverse the board 17, the stops 29. operating in connection with the stops 30 to properly position the drip board, and the continued frictilonal driving power servingto hold it in p ace.

While this invention is primarily conceived to use in connection with the power wringers on washing machines, its use ma be extended to any type of wringer. t will be further apparent to those skilled in the art that the mechanical construction of my invention as shown in the accompanying drawings'represents only one of a number ofI possible designs for an automatically reversible drip board, many others of which are known to the inventor, and any variations in the design will not interfere withv and stops limiting the movement of said shaft to position the drip board. y

2. In ,a 'wringen the combination of a frame; wringer rolls; shafts for th rolls mounted in and extending throug the frame; a tilting drip board; a shaft on which the drip board/1s mounted, said shaft extending through the frame; and means outside of theframe forming a, drivin connection between a wringer roll shaJ said drip board shaft for reversing the tilting drip board as the wringer rolls are reversed.'

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set m hand.

y JOHN R. SPENCER 'and 10 

